From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-05-04T04:34:51+09:00
Subject: Re: un_metaclass

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:

>
> On 3.5.2005, at 21:24, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>>> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>>> thoughts on how to do this
>>>>
>>>>    class C
>>>>      class << self
>>>>        p un_metaclass #=> C
>>>>      end
>>>>    end
>>>>
>>>> ??
>>>
>>> I'd prefer to call it #instance 'cause that's what it is. :-)
>>
>>
>> hmmm.  ok.  any ideas?  i'm playing with nesting and ancestors - but
>> no luck.
>>
>
> There's this terrible hack:
>
> class Class
>   def un_metaclass
>     to_s.scan(/:[^A-Z]*(([A-Za-z0-9]*(::)?)+)/)[0][0].
>          split("::").inject(Object){|m, n| m.const_get(n)}
>   end
> end
>
> It's not something I'd like to use though :-)

is that perl?  ;-)

-a
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